One of my friends recently switched to Android. He disabled his iMessages account and is telling me I'm the only one of his contacts complaining about the following.
Basically, I'm now getting his messages as from his phone number AND his icloud account.
So it will say message from 123-4567 and person@icloud.com (as if it were a group conversation). And they also appear in a different thread labeled with just the phone number.
The behavior is a bit wild. Usually the "group" conversation ends up appearing blank, while the conversation with the phone number keeps only a few days worth of messages. Basically, messages are randomly assigned to one or another conversation and if I open it a second time, they might get remapped to a different one or disappear.
It can be normal for a day or 2 and then it comes back.
So I deleted the contact card completely, from my iPhone, Mac and watch. But I'm still getting the same behavior.
Note that it's not consistent through all devices. Ex: My watch can send a notification "new message from 123-4567 and person@icloud.com" while my mac would just show the phone number and my phone would show 2 conversations. It's completely random.
Is there a way to reset that somehow? It's been a month and I'm out of ideas.
Basically, I'm now getting his messages as from his phone number AND his icloud account.
So it will say message from 123-4567 and person@icloud.com (as if it were a group conversation). And they also appear in a different thread labeled with just the phone number.
The behavior is a bit wild. Usually the "group" conversation ends up appearing blank, while the conversation with the phone number keeps only a few days worth of messages. Basically, messages are randomly assigned to one or another conversation and if I open it a second time, they might get remapped to a different one or disappear.
It can be normal for a day or 2 and then it comes back.
So I deleted the contact card completely, from my iPhone, Mac and watch. But I'm still getting the same behavior.
Note that it's not consistent through all devices. Ex: My watch can send a notification "new message from 123-4567 and person@icloud.com" while my mac would just show the phone number and my phone would show 2 conversations. It's completely random.
Is there a way to reset that somehow? It's been a month and I'm out of ideas.